Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 52
But if the Kaiser's daughter chose herself to hand any one anything, who was there to forbid it?
Who acts: daughter · What happens: choose, hand, be, forbid · To what, where: daughter, anything, Kaiser
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 chose | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 chose | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Kaiser | det |
| 4 | Kaiser | Kaiser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Kaiser | case |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chose | nsubj |
| 7 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 chose | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hand | mark |
| 10 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chose | xcomp |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 anything | det |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 anything | nummod |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 hand | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 there | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 anything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 forbid | mark |
| 19 | forbid | forbid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 there | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 forbid | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | the Kaiser's daughter | daughter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hand | to-infinitive | the Kaiser's daughter not said here | anything | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | who nsubj; there property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forbid | to-infinitive | Kaiser | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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